It's a silly thing, but I like to understand people through their obsessions.
The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all.
For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.
It's not like I'm such a shiny happy person either, you know? I'm a wreck too, I'm just. . . still alive.
Serve a noble disposition, though poore, the time comes that hee will repay thee.
With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.
There are lots of excellent analysts out there. John Holdren at the Harvard Kennedy School, who was just president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has been talking about this stuff for years. There are lots of people out there who understand what’s going on. The problem is, they aren’t much picked up on Fox News.